Goodbye to My 2011

So 2011 is drawing to a close and I'm taking this chance to say all that I'll ever need to say. By far, this year has been the most awesome in terms of balancing work and play, building relationships with people and learning from the mistakes I've made. But at this point, I have come to realise how lucky I am because after such a long time in high school I finally realise who I am and I am happy with it. Yes, it's actually taken me that long. Say, draw comparison to Where's Wally. In amongst the craziness of crowds with everyone sort of looking like each other- there's those who look like him but aren't the real him. There's those that try and act like him and aren't the real him. Beneath those white and red stripes, there will always be one unique Wally. An individual who does but does not stand out from the crowds ( if you nomsayin :) You have to try and find that inner you and at that stage, you'll be truly happy. You're happy because after such a long search through those hoards of people, you can identify yourself from any point of view. And finally, that wave of relief overcomes you. That is what 2011 has taught me.

Just recently, I met a girl in a doctor's waiting room- she is the same age as me and is going to schoolies on the Gold Coast. I'll admit, talking with her wasn't the most pleasant of experiences but it certainly has made me realise that I have built this wall of confidence I didn't quite have back in 2010. So the girl asked if I was going to the Gold Coast Schoolies and I said no, reasoning that I'd rather go somewhere local or get a part time job + fricking get my L's LOL. But they didn't stop there- they kept pressing and prying and I  just told her that I haven't heard of the pleasantest stories there, hoping that would silent her. And she kept going. Basically, as she was speaking I could tell she was trying to make me feel inferior cos I wont be going and I was getting agitated. She kept talking for ages and her patronising tone was fully annoying me. She knew what school I was from so I think she made assumptions about the type of people there. She patted me on the shoulder and pretty much told me to get a life and that I can't make assumptions. I kinda lost it at that point. I sarcastically remarked 'oh my goodness I finally realise that I totally want to be like you because you're so fricking cool :D' and i gave the biggest of sarcastic smiles possible. I don't think I would've had the courage to do that last year but damn those drama skills have stuck with me muhahhaaa.

Anyway enough of my sarcasm skillz... OH GUESS WHAT I watched Tower Heist this week :) Twas a pretty good movie even though we had to sit in the 3rd row. It's interestingly uncomfortable sitting there because my eyes couldn't quite take in the whole screen. So much action is happening and I can only focus my eyes at at particular part. There was a scene where the men had to fit a car into an elevator and one of the dudes is like:
'We can't fit this into the elevator....'
And the other guy said
'We don't have to....' AAND I INSTANTLY I THOUGHT OF NOTHING BUT
LENGTH CONTRACTION YO
Hmm sadly this wasn't what the guy was thinking of but I found myself to be quite witty.

I went to the city today! Spent a lot of money on cosmetics cos I don't really own any :S I bought 2 eyeshadows (light purple and a metallic pink), a pot of black gel eyeliner and an angled brush from MAC YAY and then I bought blush at sportsgirl haha. AS OF TODAY I AM A WOMAN!

And everyone from our school, just sayin' if you google your own name, most likely the "We Can Change the World" forum will pop up - remember from year 8? And our year 7 photos are there. :D

Wishing everyone the Happiest and Most Prosperous New Year!
Lots of love
xx ellejai

Realisations

I think there will be more of these 'realisations' posts in future. They're just little things I have come to understand about myself.
1) I have a very short fuse. I have very little patience for (mentally) slow people or people that don't understand what I'm talking about when I try to explain in the simplest of terms. I admit that at times, I say things that don't really make sense so I have to piece words together and hope that they flow. But when I have to explain something more than twice, man THAT'S JUST IT I'm not explaining anymore. For example, when I once tried to text 'change' in the sentence 'I was going to change it from blue to pink' but instead, wrote 'I was going to hange it from blue to pink'. Is it just me, or is it blatantly obvious that the 'hange' was supposed to be a 'change'? The person I texted didn't pick it up and said 'me no comprehendo, I have to decipher your texts'. THERES NOTHING TO DECIPHER SIJFOISJDOFIJSDOIFJDSI PUT THE C IN FRONT OF THE HANGE AND YOU GET CHANGE OSIDFJIODSJF'. Stuff like that really gets me infuriated. I'm trying not to get so angry but it will still peeve me a tad.

2) I am annoyed when a person tries to talk about something they have no fricking idea about, and especially when they say it in a tone where its all OH I KNOW EVERYTHING AND I'M RIGHT. Or even worse, when THEY ARE ACTUALLY WRONG. When I was in year 4, I went to the orientation day at my new school for year 5 and we were placed into groups for some teamwork general knowledge quizzes, you know the whole getting to know each other thing. It was sort of a relay thing where you have to write the answer on the whiteboard and you get points for being first etc. One of the questions in the quiz was 'Does the sun rise in the east or the west?'. To which the scribe in our group wrote (NOT even asking anyone else) WEST. I said to her very politely, 'hey, the question was where does it rise, the answer is east'. She looked back at me with the O.O (sideways glance) and fricking did that chhh chuckle thing and said nooo it rises in the west and SETS in the east. HOLEY WHAT THE HECK THATS IMPOSSIBRU. We argued for a while and she was being very bossy about it. I had enough of explaining to her so I got out of my chair, went up to her and said 'GIMME THE PEN' (deathstare), rubbed off her answer and wrote east.

Anyway, today I went to the Year 12 ATAR barbeque and learnt how to turn on a bbq 8D I am quite proud of our school for coming 1st for 15 years and know our grade will continue the tradition. On the way home, my dad and I saw these two cars having a road rage. They were sticking their hands out of the car shouting etc until one guy gave the other car the finger. My dad just laughed 'haha he gave him the FO'. And I said 'what's the FO?' And he said ' the eff oh see kay'. I FRICKING CRACKED UP and went 'Dad, that's the eff you see kay' HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAA

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISS RACHEL LEE :)

So after my free today I asked daddy to take me to Macquarie Centre so I could go to Kikki. K , because I have this idea that cool stationery will make you more motivated to study hard. I clambered my way upstairs to the top floor only to realise that the store wasn't there anymore. We were contemplating going to chatswood because I had a real hankering (haha) but I was intelligent enough to take a centre map and find out if the store just relocated within the shopping centre. AND it turns out it did! In fact, Kikki.K moved just around the corner from where it used to be and so I skipped down like a mesmerised child in candyland. So it was 25% off until this sunday and I decided to get everything I wanted for the moment which would keep me satisfied for the weekend. So I got an A5 diary, pencilcase which is btw incredibly cute and metal ballpoint refills for my awesome pen that cost me $12.95 from the same store. Basically theres 2 types of refills: one, where the body of the refill is plastic and the tip is also plastic ish and the other is the one I bought-metal all round. Now don't you reckon a metal ballpoint pen with metal casing deserves a metal ballpoint refill? The serving lady was about to give me the plastic refills but I flatly refuse to put cheap plastic crap in such a nice pen-don't you think it deserves metal parts at the very least? Besides, it writes smoother =) That's like giving your ferrari the cheapest $69 tyres. Or (maybe this is more relevant) giving your parker pen cheaper homebrand refills. Give your prized possessions the treatment they deserve yo. Thats like building this beautiful sheek garage and you park your old bomb in it. For goodness sake, you've just ruined the whole look of it. Okay now I'm taking it too far. Ill stop. Wait, one more. Nah.. here have some photos.

How cute is this pencilcase?

HAHHAHHAHAHHAA

Teehee okay Im all set for the weekend. Give me some nice food and a new magazine and I'll be even happier. Toodles children :)

Enlightenment

So guess what? I have this newfound motivation to start doing work. Because I'm quite bored at home haha. So I need a new chem book cos the old one has finished and I want to contact it and make it all pureeetyy. So I venture downstairs to this room my brother used to sleep in his whole high school life in search of some nice contact. I havent been down there in a very long time and I realised something incredibly stupid. The fricking light switch, yes the light switch, IS ON THE ROOF. So when you walk into the room you have to see through the darkness, grab a ping pong bat, jump, hit the roof with the bat and hope that the light switches on. Who is really that dumb as to not put the switch beside the door? No wonder I'm scared of that room. We kinda use it as a store room now so I also put all my dolls (from when I was a kid) up against the side of the wall. So when you walk in, you're not only faced with darkness, but with the transfixed glassy eyes of my dolls. Yeah scary room. Wow who ever designed that room is so stupid.

Dotpoint

- Went to Castle Towers today and laid my head on a $130 pillow. Bought the $30 one instead.
-Tried to find a 'skinny tie' for my cousin. Why so expensive for?
-Saw Woody at Towers. I think he was buying earphones or some technological device. Thought of him rapping haha. But I was too far away to say Hi.
- Saw Alex at Carlo Court. Bought coffee at carlo court. And now I'm sleepy.
-Watched half of 'I am Number Four'.

Since I bought a pillow, I thought of how I sleep. Its a bit abnormal cos I tend to sleep on the left half of my face. Trust me, I've tried to correct my habit but it's too hard. Oh and the reason I bought a pillow is cos I sleep on two at the moment- one is more like a flattened pancake and the other is too high. So I place the high one on a 30 degree angle and then put the flattened one (which is softer) on a 30 degree angle ontop of the high one. Hah I hope that makes sense (think of the tetris block). So I chose the one I bought because when I tried it, I held it to my head and placed my neck on it. As I did that the pillow slowly sunk in and that feeling was just beautiful :) Yeah so I'm actually gonna sleep early tonight teehee.

I realise that when Im in my room trying to get to sleep and someone walks in I close my eyes pretending to sleep. I know its dodgy but I think to myself- if that person ever stole something or moved someting from my room, I'd know it was them. So when they leave the room I can full outburst scream at them and catch them in the act. And if they come over to check if I'm awake (while im pretending), I'd just FULLY OPEN MY EYES LIKE THIS O.O AND SCARE THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF THEM! Yeah, don't take stuff from my room please.
Have some photos to lighten up your day :D

Thanks for the add :)

I have never fully understood why people say 'thanks for the add' (followed by a smiley) on facebook. Why would you be thankful? Is it because your friend count has gone up by 1? Especially when someone you dont know has added you, I find people say 'hey thanks for the add but who's this?'. I get that you dont want to sound rude but really are you actually thankful for the add?

ANYWAY went to eastwood to play pool after school yesterday and I put 2 balls in, in a row! 8D and one of them wasnt the usual straight shot, but a rebound hehe. Used the laws of physics to help me. Then we went to eat at this chinese cafe thingy where I had beef noodle soup. And they gave us coffee lol. OH I bought a pair of shorts today! Theyre like a galaxy print but denim material so its not shiny. Theyre ripped on the front and stressed at the bottom-cant wait to wear them!

Have a lovely weekend :)